Indeed, to raise awareness about and take a stand against the country’s significant gender wage gap, the Handsome Her eatery is doing just that. No one is kicked out for refusing to pay & apparently many men have been paying the tax and throwing in a few extra dollars to support a good cause. The proprietors indicate the tax collected will go to support an aboriginal women’s welfare charity.

According to recent research “textual analysis of more than 1 million books by scholars shows a startling proliferation of swearwords since the mid-1950s.”

The study goes on to say “American culture increasingly values individual self-expression and weaker social taboos, and these trends are manifested in the increasing use of swearwords.”